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CIRCULAR GLOAK] No. 277,014 Patented May 8,1883.

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CIRCULAR GLOAK.

No. 277,014. I Patented May 8.1883.

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WITNESSES Y INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. DOWSE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CIRCULAR CLOAK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,014, dated May 8, 1883.

Application filed November 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. DowsE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Circular Oloaks, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so construct acircular cloak that it shall have as few seams as possible and shall use or waste as little cloth as possible.

My invention consists in making the body of the circular cloak in two pieces, so that there is only one long seam in the center ofthe back of the garment and two short seams over the shoulders. Formerly cloaks were made with three long seams-one long seam on each side i and one long seam in the center of .the back. They have latterly been made with two long seams at the side and with no seam in the back. I find that by constructing-the body of a circular cloak with two pieces, with one long seam in the center of the back and two short seams over theshoulders,.l can save cloth and make as perfect a fitting garment as in any of the old methods.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a full elevation or perspective view of the back of the arment embod in my invention as it a pears upon a person. Fig. 2 is a pattern and plan view of the two pieces out of which I form my improved cloak. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a pattern in one piece with two seams only-one at each shoulderout of which I may form my improved cloak, and which I deem it modification of my invention.

Similar letters mark corresponding parts in all of said figures.

B is the long seam in the center of the back of the garment.

A is the short seam over the shoulders, which, as shown in the drawings, extends sufficiently below the shoulders to give the garment a shapely appearance.

In' Fig. 2 the pieces are placed in the position in which they are to be sewed to form the garment, B B forming the long back-seam, A

A being brought together, forming the short shoulder-seams, while the edges at D D form the front edge of the cloak.

D D are the two pieces out of which I make the body of the garment. seen that the long back-seam can be omitted, and that the garment can be made of one piece with the two short shoulder seams. This would embody the spirit of my invention; but I prefer, for convenience in manufacturing, to make the garment with one long scam in the back and with the two short shoulder-seams, as described.

It will be readily What I claim as new, and desire to secure 4 WILLIAM B. DOVVSE.

Witnesses:

WM. B. H. DowsE, HUGH YOUNG. 

